The customs authority and Deshbandhu Sugar Mills Limited (DSML) are at loggerheads over payment of import taxes on the essential commodity. DSML has alleged that the fiscal measure on import...
The central bank has asked the top executives of the non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to play a strong role for averting irregularities in the sector, officials said on Wednesday. The...
Bangladesh and Vietnam out of six Asian frontier markets are expected to remain among the fastest-growing world economies in 2021. The Washington-based International Institute of Finance (IIF) has made this...
The government on Wednesday approved the import of 6.720 million British thermal units (MMBTu) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a Singapore-based company having a questionable track record. The company...
If one asks the undergrad students, who are just on the verge of attending their final exams of university life, what is their biggest concern right now, what could be...
If we search Google or ask people about internships, half of the answers are likely to be positive and the other half, naturally, negative. Internships are scope for students or...
Dacoit of Excellence 2.0, the flagship event of Jagannath University Career Club (JNUCC) is back once again prior to last time's huge success. Breaking the barriers and overcoming the obstacles...
St Gregory's High School and College is one of the most influential educational institutions in the sub-continent. 'Gregorian,' therefore, has always been an identity of pride. To keep the spirit...
The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree that stole more than $1.3 billion in money and cryptocurrency, the Department of Justice said...
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have decided to hold admission tests for the first-year honours students for the academic session of 2020-21 from June 6 which will continue till...
Bangladesh's golden fibre has lost its luster to plastic and other synthetic materials. Due to growing environmental and health issues, there has been increasing interest in natural fibre. For example,...
The creation of a refinancing fund worth Tk10 billion for cinema halls may prompt many to jump to the conclusion that better days are ahead for the film industry. Normally...
The country's economic growth has been unable to create jobs proportionately over the past decade, raising questions about the significance of the growth for a large section of the population....
The social security schemes introduced by Bangladesh government at different times for aiding the marginalised segments of the population including the aged, the destitute and the disabled have earned the...
Dhaka: Bose, an American manufacturing company that sells audio equipment, will offer a variety of sound system products at Evaly.com.bd. These products can be purchased from the virtual shop...
India on Wednesday offered a COVID-19 vaccine to all United Nations peacekeepers - nearly 95,000 troops in 12 missions around the world. “Keeping in mind the UN Peacekeepers who operate...
The annual Urs marking the 809th death anniversary of Hazrat Shah Sufi Khawaja Mainuddin Chisty (RA) will be observed on the premises Of Mia Saheb's Maidan at luxmibazar old city...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said sea cruise services can be introduced between Bangladesh and the Maldives during the winter season. The prime minister made the proposal while newly-appointed...
Facebook Inc is building a smartwatch that will let users send messages and also offer health and fitness features, people with direct knowledge of the device have said. The social...
Economic performance of Bangladesh in FY20 ought to be assessed from the vantage point of an extraordinary year when an once in a lifetime global crisis of our time had...
Efforts to revive national manufacturing sectors get a lot of airtime. After all, the sector propelled many East and South East Asian economies-the so-called "East Asia Miracle"-and was a gateway...
Bangladesh will get five million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine in the second batch from the Serum Institute of India as per the deal, the health secretary says. Speaking...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque has assured the people that Bangladesh will not face any shortage of COVID-19 vaccine doses as the country ensured supply of adequate doses of the vaccine....
Bangladesh wants to involve as many authorised recruiting agencies as possible in the process of sending workers to Malaysia. However, the two countries are yet to decide on the issue,...
With falling rates of COVID-19 infection in India and surveys suggesting nearly 300 million people may already have antibodies, some experts believe the worst of the disease has passed, despite...
আন্তর্জাতিক বাজারে অপরিশোধিত সয়াবিন ও পাম তেলের বাজার অস্থিতিশীল থাকায় দেশের পরিশোধনকারী মিল ও ভোক্তাস্বার্থ বিবেচনায় ভোজ্যতেলের মূল্য সীমা নির্ধারণ করে দিয়েছে সরকার। বুধবার সচিবালয়ে অত্যাবশ্যকীয় পণ্য বিপণন ও পরিবেশক...
থাকবে কৃত্রিম চাঁদ, উড়ন্ত ট্যাক্সির ব্যবস্থা। বাড়িঘর পরিষ্কারের কাজ করবে রোবট। পুরো শহর হবে কার্বনমুক্ত। সৌদি আরবের কর্তৃপক্ষই একে বর্ণনা করেছে বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে উচ্চাকাঙ্ক্ষী প্রকল্প হিসাবে। মেগা এই শহরের নাম...
Personal care brand Himalaya has announced model-turned-actor Arefin Shuvo as the brand ambassador for its men’s facewash range in Bangladesh. The well-acclaimed Bangladeshi actor signed a deal with the company...
The delay is another blow to the EU, which has also been hit by delays in deliveries from Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca and US company Moderna, and had also faced earlier...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson has said at least 10 to 15 British companies will set up their businesses in Bangladesh by three to four years. Describing...
Congressional Democrats have begun discussions with the White House on ways to crack down on Big Tech including making social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation on matters...
The High Court has ordered Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to take steps to remove an Al Jazeera report, titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men”, from the internet. However, the...
Six people were killed in a fire at a gold mine in eastern China’s Shandong province, while four others were rescued, state media reported on Wednesday. The fire occurred at...
China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, responding to queries at a televised event on the Asian nation’s handling of...
Bangladesh has recorded 443 new cases of the coronavirus in a day, taking the tally of infections to 541,877. The death toll climbed to 8,314 after 16 fatalities from COVID-19...
Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said officials were on the verge of announcing the deal in December when BioNTech pulled the plug. While he did not directly say China was...
The government's Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) has issued an alert to several financial and government organisations over a possible cyber-attack. Several organisations, including Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Police, Corona BD,...
Tesla boss Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed an equity funding round of $850 million that sent its valuation to about $74 billion last week, according to a CNBC report run by...
Opponents of Myanmar’s military coup, including celebrities, veteran activists and students, rejected on Wednesday an army assertion that there was public support for overthrowing elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi,...
New psychological thriller ‘Fear of Rain’ takes audiences inside the mind of a schizophrenic teenager who struggles to tell the difference between horrifying hallucinations and reality. The movie stars Katherine...
Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old Indian environmental activist accused of sedition over a document backing protesting farmers, is as committed to protecting animals from harm as she is to save the...
দেশের শ্রমিকদের অধিকারের ব্যাপারে বিশ্বের বিভিন্ন মহল থেকে উদ্বেগ প্রকাশের পর শ্রম আইন পুনঃ পর্যালোচনা করার সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছে সরকার। আগামী মাসের প্রথম সপ্তাহে অনুষ্ঠিতব্য ত্রিপক্ষীয় পরামর্শ সভায় এ সংক্রান্ত একটি...
A year ago, Marzio Toniolo led a simple life as a primary school teacher, husband and father in the small northern Italian town of San Fiorano. Then San Fiorano and...
Students of Barishal University have been protesting in the city since Wednesday morning against an attack on some of their fellows by local transport workers on Tuesday. Witnesses said the...
The government has fixed the maximum retail prices for soyabean and palm oil with immediate effect to control the soaring trend of the prices in the domestic market. The National...
Indian state refiners’ gasoline sales in the first two weeks of February fell below pre-pandemic levels, the first decline in about six months, preliminary industry data showed, as record-high retail...
Serena Williams came through a huge test of her Australian Open title credentials to reach the last four at Melbourne Park for the ninth time with a 6-3 6-3 victory...
Stocks witnessed a mixed trend in the early trading on Wednesday as investors mostly followed a cautious stance amid lack of clear direction. Following the previous day’s marginal fall, the...
A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moon’s surface is on track to join the search for water there, its Hungarian inventors believe - using a device that weighs...
Hanan Ashrawi, the most famous woman in Palestinian politics, will not be running in the first elections for 15 years, opting instead to mentor a new generation of political leaders....
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